I am more real, more alive, and more at work in this
world, than you can sometimes believe!”

“I am about to do a new
thing; now it springs forth,

can’t you see and discern it, perceive it?

I will
make a way in the wilderness

and rivers in the desert.”

-Isaiah 43:19

We all know and can
relate to a bible story or parable that begins with a voice of mercy and
compassion crying out in the wilderness in those strange and desert-like,
dangerous places where we least expect it but most need it.

A MAN WAS TRAVELING DOWN A WILDERNESS ROAD that was so dangerous that it was sometimes called “the
way of blood” or “the bloody pass.” And there out in the wilderness, the man
fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, leaving him half
dead on the side of the road.

As the man lay on
the roadside, somewhere between Jerusalem and Jericho, somewhere between life
and death, wanting to live, but also maybe wanting to die, he is ignored by two
religious leaders who are also traveling down the same road.

GOD ONLY KNOWS WHY THESE MEN WHO YOU WOULD EXPECT TO
STOP AND HELP, BLATANTLY IGNORED THE MAN. Maybe the were afraid of being defiled by touching a bloody
corpse, thinking it might be a dead man, and heaven forbid they break with
religious practices and protocols! Perhaps they thought the robbers were still
nearby, or maybe they thought the man lying on ground was only pretending,
playing some sort of trick so that when they came near him he could beat and
rob them. For whatever reason, they believed it was much too risky for them to
stop and risk care and extend compassion.

THEN ALONG CAME THIS OTHER MAN. Luke calls him a
Samaritan, which means this was someone who was despised and rejected by the
religious establishment, someone who was often misunderstood and rarely respected,
someone who knew something about pain and brokenness, betrayal and abandonment,
God-forsakenness.Someone who had spent
many days and nights in the wilderness, himself being tempted and tried.

THIS ONE MAN WHO WAS THE LEAST AMONG THEM in their ability to see and perceive, never expected to
stop and help, saw the man. He saw the man’s wounds, saw the man’s fear, saw
the man’s despair and was moved with mercy and compassion. And there in the
wilderness he risked his own life as he sacrificially came to him, selflessly
bent himself down to the ground, and joined the man.

The man did not
have to do anything to make this one come to him. Out of pure love,
unconditional and unreserved, this one just came.

He then touched the man where the man most needed
healing, pouring oil and
wine on the man’s wounds and bandaging them. He then picked the man up and
safely carried him out of the wilderness. He stayed with him, at his side
through the darkness of the night. When morning came, he paid for the man’s debts,
and made the promise: “I will come back. I will return.”

CAN YOU NOW UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS GOD SEEING ONE LYING
IN THE WILDERNESS IN THEIR WEAKEST, MOST BROKEN STATE? Seeing one in their most desperate, most vulnerable
need, and it is God being moved with mercy and compassion for that one?

It is a voice
crying out from the heavens into the wilderness:

“I am for you, not against you, I am with you, not away
from you.

I am Emmanuel! (God WITH you!)

I will risk my own life for you.

I will give
my all to take care of your wounds and to pick you up,

to forgive all of your
debts.

And when you are ready, I will come back, and I will take you unto
myself, so that where I am, you will also be.”

COMPASSION AND HUMBLE SERVICE IN THIS SEASON. Yes, right now in
this very time, begins a move and season with God for those willing to STOP on
their pathways of purpose and planning and to be a voice crying out in the
wilderness in those places where we may least expect it, but where it’s needed
the most.

YOU AND I ARE TO GOING TO COME UPON WOUNDED
PEOPLE along
our paths as we journey. Their wounds are not bloody and gaping holes on the
outside. Instead, their hearts are broken. They have forgotten how to smile,
for real, from the inside. They are insecure, lonely, and they wish they could
trust again.

THEY CARRY UNSEEN LOADS OF GUILT, SHAME, AND
SELF-LOATHING. They
never feel comfortable in their own skin. They feel different although they
don't quite know what 'normal' is. Broken hearts, oppressed spirits, mangled
emotions, and tormented thoughts. Lying along the path you just happen to be
traveling.

IF YOU'VE MET CHRIST, THEN YOU'VE MET THE
HEALER. The One
who makes all things new, a perfect Redeemer, has touched you. You are sealed
with His Spirit. Spirit-filled believer you are a stream of living water that
these people need to be saved, healed, and restored. The Spirit of God is often
signified in the Old Testament Scriptures as holy anointing oil, and indicated
in the New Testament Scriptures to be like a heart-gladdening new wine.

BELIEVER! DRAW OUT AND POUR IN THE OIL AND WINE
TO THE HURTING AND BROKEN.

Your tongue is the ladle, and your words the
stream!

Speak
kind words.

Speak
healing words.

Proclaim
truth.

Share
the absolute truth of Jesus Christ.

Pray
and intercede with faith.

YOU ARE MEANT TO BE MORE THAN AN OCCASIONAL GOOD
SAMARITAN. You are
always on duty, an ambassador of Jesus Christ and a minister of reconciliation
(2 Corinthians
5:18-20). You are drawing on a never-ending supply!

SO GO ON!Pour out the oil and the
wine.

A PROPHETIC WORD

“It’s The Season and
Time, To Pour Out The Oil and Wine”

“When I
the Spirit of Grace and Compassion look down upon mankind, I do not see as man
sees. No! I see each situation, hear each conversation and discern what is good
and evil in each life.

My Oil,
My Holy vibrant Spirit is available to overflowing for those who would
willingly look with the eyes of my compassion and eyes of discernment. It will
flow out and into the driest of people, working loose the cemented stones of
the hardened heart. It will soothe and soften the scarred and scabbed marks of
a hard life, and refresh.

It is a
risky thing to go and search out those fallen by the roadside where there are
so many other routes of safety to do good works. But remember, I was the One
who poured out the wine, my life’s blood, so that you might live and be
cleansed.

I was a
man, despised and rejected, yet I obeyed and took the road, the path, which was
set in front of me. And I found you, broken and bruised, lost and confused,
looking for help when others abused, robbed and broke your heart and mind.

Take my
oil, take the power of the wine, and use it in this hour. Anoint and bind up the wounds of the
brokenhearted, teaching those captive how to be free. From your well of
compassion I will pour out upon the darkness of mankind.

It’s
time, to pour out My Oil and My wine and to create places of rest in worship
and peace for those who need a resting place and haven from the battered and
violent landscape of the world and it’s dangerous paths that lead to harm.

Pour! Pour! Pour!

I will do
exploits as you physically and spiritually pour out the oil and the wine among
my people and into the lives of those whom I will send you to.

You have
been filled up with the Oil of The Holy Spirit to BURN brightly and to spill
over into your generation!

Declare
it to the world! Speak it to the darkness-you have been filled and you are continuously
infused with a perpetual well of power, a prophetic declaration is on your lips
as the oil runs through you and you have the eyes of Christ, who has baptized
you with this oil of power and anointing-to see with His discernment!

GO in
power; make your proclamation and feed that vision Sons and Daughters, who pour
out the Fresh Oil and Fresh wine in My name! PROCLAIM THE WORD OF LIFE!

It’s not
by ability, nor by power but BY MY SPIRIT SAYS THE LORD!

And You
Shall Be My Witnesses along all of the pathways that you travel! You shall
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses
to Me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." - Acts 1:8